Neil Toronto wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: >> I would need to think more about this. I'm tempted not to do this, and >> let these ABCs denote the *explicit* presence of __contains__ and >> __iter__, respectively. Something that's iterable but doesn't >> implement __contains__ supports the 'in' operator very inefficiently >> (through linear search) which we might not want to encourage. > It could be worse. Is a container necessarily finite?
I meant an iterable, of course, not a container. Neil _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
